Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-18
down TO DEATH.
A Crowded Passenger Train Goes
Through a Bridge on the Boston
/ and Providence Railway.
PIE Cars Are Mashed and Piled Up in
an Unrecagntz die Mass-Th0
f!ead Horribly M8ugIed.
Twenty Three People Killed Outright and
100 l. jrre d Partial List of Dead
and Wounded.
IN AWFUL ACCIDENT

An AWFUL ACCIDENT.
B0sToN, MASS, March IA 1t is re-
ported tbat heavily loaded passenger
train on the Boston and Providence Rail
road nat wiLa Il terrible accident about Z
O'Clock this morning, between R0slindale
and Forrest Hill. -Four cars are said to
have gore through the bridge, and many
persors were killed. A wrecking train
! has left here for the scene of the accident
Nineteen bodies have already been taken
! from the RUNS.
The latest advices from the scene Of
| tie accident on the Boston and Provi-
dence Railroad indicate that thirty-three
persons were killed and forty Injured.
Among these are many women. Cyndue-
/ tor Tilden was among the killed.
The accident Jhis morning occurred on
/ the Dedh8m branch of the Boston and
! Providence Railroad, between Forest
( Hill and RJslindale, st what is known q 8
| Bussey Park bridge. The O'Clock train
/ from Dsdham, consisting Of seven cars
| and q baggage car, under charge OF Con-
| dhctor Tlldcn, broke through the bridge.
HE engine and three cars went ever
Safely. bu. the four others fell through
the bridge 10 tic road beneath, Il distance
of thirty fee5. The last car which
was the smoker turned completely over
and struck on top or the others, all being
crushed almost out of sigbt. The cause
| If the accident is said 20 have been the
breaking Of the bridge. Reports IS to
the number Of passengers and persons
killed vary greatly, ana it is impossible
IS yet 10 give The tOtei number Of vic
tins
Il is stated that the bridge where the
accident occurred this morning was 6
comparatively new one and that the acct
dent was caused Dy truck on one Of the
cars giving way, causing the cars to strike
against the abutmert If the bridge. The
smoking car after it fell caught fire, but
TIE fire department was promptly on hand
aud prevented any spread Of the flames
TIE bodies of the dead have ell been re-
moved and Of the WOUGded some are at
the hospitals and some have been taken
home, So that il is very difficult to obtain
the Da-Ees and extent Of the Injuries at
the present time. Among The killed are:
The latest computation shows g total #
twenty three killed and fifty Injured. A
revised list Of deaths as lar as ascertaineG
is as follows:
LIZZIE WALTON,
BYRON THD%N, conductor,
LIZZIE Vaudeville,
II. TAYLOR, policeman,
Mrs ELLIS,
IDA ADAMS,
ALICE BURNETT,
EDW. MORRIS,
GEORGE METCALF,
MRS. CARDINAL,
CHARLES SNOW,
STEPHEN HOUGHTON.
WEBSTER CLAPP,
WILLIAM Z. SNOW,
Mrs. kENNARD,
FRANK NICHOLS,
II. HUMPHREY,
Miss HARKINs of Dedham,
HANNAH MURPHY, West RJNbury,
IL. L. JOHNSON, Boston,
ALICE VANDERBILT,
HARRY GAY, RJXbury,
STONE, West RoXJUry,
RYAN OF ROslindale,
WILLIAM 5. SMITH,
WILLIAM L. DURHAM,
There ere SIX dead a. the hospital
whose names are not known. There are
a. the morgue the bodies Of three men
and Two women which as yet remain IN
identified.
Among the wounded are the following:
john II. DRAYTON, right arm fractured
EDWARD COOPER, internal injuries.
WEBSTER DRAKE, assistant conductor,
seriously injured.
II. G. T DRAKE, Slightly Injured.
D. S. HAMMoND, right arm fractured. /
WILLIAM II. JORDAN Of RJsIiGG2Ie.
A S HARRINGTON.
3 FIR Nh CUTLER.
MABEL ADAMS.
Two sisters named HARKINs, sisters Of /
the Miss Harkins VINO was killed.
RUSSELL STUBS, Providence Railroad !.
conductor.
I. +. PALFL0, section man.
All the above named were taken to the .
hospitals.
4 REVIEW OF TUE WRECK.
The wreck as it lies makes q more sp- /
paliiug ruin than that Of aug recent dis
aster. At Deertigld, White River juno
zion and other scores Of horror, fire
wiped cut all ruins tlzt We're rot ride
stTuctiJic, but not SO this time. There
lies CREST trough nearly tlIed with torn,
twisted, crushed splinJered railroad
property. An adequate description Of
The sl8peleSs mass Is simply Impossible.
Of the nine cars which formed the train
tour are in the cut. The first lies minus
IS truck near the track, ab0ut 400 feet
rom the nearest bridge a5utment. 1t
vas the near truck of this car that went
wrong first, but the occupants were not
lurt, being only shaken no.
Just back Of this car Is No. Is, the sec
Dnd car Of the train. TaiS was swept
from the trucks and its rear was crushed
IN by the car following.
Car No. %, the third one Of the train, ,
s on the emDankment, badly demoraliz-d. !
The passengers IL this Car were badly ,
shaken up, ont there were 10 serious !
casualties among them. This car lies t
partly or its side, about 100 feet from ]
a. C.asm.
Next came car No. 81. It is doubtful
( anyone escaped from this car alive
The bridge entirely gave away be- :
ore il reached the inward side, {
tut the momentum of the train !
md the strength of the couplings carried t
tnearIy over the chasm. 1t dropped Just I
before it reached the abutment aud the (
,5dy # the car dashed against the solid {
tone wall. The car was i
LITERALLY GROUND TO PIECES
I'd biys Of WOOG, iron and human bodies +
we're strewn on the road beneath form !
agBhe foufdation OF the wreck Those
mo EXAMINED the wreck could find /
D distinct brace in the ruins of this car
ihich Gould be identified. Tie cars
.hich lieA3n the ch4sm form a pile Of
7reckaSe 400 feet long by 100 wide.
lost OF tnScaSualtieS. were in cars s., |